The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-11-17
An Inglorious Ending
OF The ATTEMPT To INTRODUCE
MURDER AS A GREAT SOCIAL
PRINCIPLE

PRINCIPLE
On last Friday, at noon, the -four
Anarchists-A. R. Parsons, August
Spies, George Engel and Adolph Fisch-
er-were hung, at Chicago, just like
any other murderers, and there was as
little excitement attending it as there
is attending hangings generally,
This crime has attracted great interest
in this country, because Of its being
the first attempt upon large scale to
give an impetus to the idea, in this
country, that man who is sober, and
honest, and industrious, and saves up
a little money, ought to be blown up
with dynamite, and his family with
him. And it is to be hoped that the
inglorious ending will cause it to be
the last attempt Of its kind.
For many months these Anarchists
had held secret meetings, organized
armed companies, and drilled in Gel
lars and out-of-the-way places. So
strongly did their infatuation with
the idea become, that they really
began to consider themselves able to
break down the law, destroy the po-
lice, and defy the militia of the State.
Think Of a number of educated men,
and ready public speakers, teaching
the doctrine of wholesale murder, in
free America! This Society went on,
with its secret meetings, its incendiary
speeches, and its public parades with
red banners, until the authorities saw
that steps must be taken to suppress
the demagogues.
On Tuesday, May 4th, 1886, the
d magogues Spies, Fielden and others
held a meeting in Haymarket, Chi
cago. So wildly infammatory became
the speeches that Inspector Bopfield
ordered out the police, and command
ed the crowd to disperse. Fielden
was addressing the rabble at the time,
and called on them to attack the
"Blood-hounds," meaning the police.
Then it was that Schnaubelt, the
bomb-thrower, got in his deadly work,
resulting in the death Of seven brave
policemen, and the wounding of a
large number of others. Schnuabelt
was arrested, but it was not known at
the time that he was the bomb-throw-
er, and he was released. Seven of
them, Spies, Fischer, Engels, Parsons,
Fielden, Schwab and Lingg, were ar
rested. Great interest centered in
this trial, on account of the widespread
sympathy with the accused. Every
effort was made to save their worth
less necks, and the cases were carried
to the Supreme Court of the United
States. This Court finding no grounds
for interfering with the work of the
lower Courts, the case went to Gov
ernor Oglesby, of Illinois, on a petit
tion for Communication of sentence to
imprisonment for life. This petition
is said to have been eleven miles long.
The petition was granted as to Field
en- and Schwab. Fielden ought GER
tainly to have been the first one hung,
but the country will perhaps be well
pleased with the matter as it was.
Well, the four brutes were hung, and
as this paper predicted weeks ago,
there was as little excitement about itas
about the clubbing Of lot of rattle
snakes, or the killing Of a mad dog.
The lesson Of this prosecution and ex-
ecution is that there is no room In
America for any such cattle. The
fact will be impressed upon the civil
lied world, wherever newspapers are
read, that professional murderers-
whether known by the name of An
archists, or some other-are promptly
hung, in America The remedial
treatment should begin, next time a
little knot of cranks get into such an
idea, ar soon as the street parade be-
gins. There is nothing that fits an
Anarchists head as we'll as police
mans club, and nothing that meets
his argument as well as the hangman' S
rope.
This country will scarcely be per-
mitted to reach the state Of terror so
long prevalent in Russia, where the
Gear Of all the Russias was for years
prisoner in his palace, being afraid
of the very servants that attended
him. The next fellow that comes to
America to teach the doctrines of
Spies and Parsons, no matter whether
it is Herr Most, Aveling, or who it is.
should be promptly suppressed, if it
takes policeman's mace to do it.
These Anarchists were all foreign
ers with the exception of Parsons,
who was a Texan. One crank said
things must be quiet on the day of
the execution, that the drop of the
scaffold might be heard throughout
the world. We trust that it was so
heard, that the world may know that
all the use America has for such brutes
is to break their necks.
A fter all we should not attempt to